First Its not the attitude that is elite but the criteria of why you can't and we can. You just detonated your own argument about who's in and who's out of this race.Yes there is a huge timeslot from first to last or the last seven or so finishers of the worrell. Lets boot them out of next years and make room for the " maybe we can do betters", but we can not do that because you never know when some of these teams are gonna get their groove on and place. So whats the difference about who is let in this race,just figure an estimated time that each class abides by per leg if you are over an alloted time for the leg you will be notified or you will call yourselves in and take a penalty. I know you still do not want the so called slow boats in the parade ! People will govern themselves by govern I mean they will know there own limits or not attempt the leg or perform better than expected or maybe god forbid actually enjoy themselves on whatever cat they own. A good sailor on a Hobie 16 can wreck havoc in an open portsmith regatta,M2KL 2001 comes to mind who the hell knew the conditions would have been right for the 16's.Keep the race open and everything else will fall into place. Here is a brand new opportunity about to be rubber coated by an omnipotent pompous minded few. Good Luck !